The Symposium welcomes sandy beach researchers, students and managers at all levels. Participants are invited to participate and share their research, making this symposium a platform to interact, establish links and identify synergies across disciplines.

The IX ISBS is resuming the series after a 6-years break, during which we gathered data, drafted concepts, carried out meta-analyses and likely integrated aspects brought up as emergencies along with the pandemic.

Two workshops are planned as occasions to harmonize the research performed by the “sandy beach community”, aligning with emerging needs of multi-disciplinarity and representativeness, highlighting gaps and raise questions to be addressed with forthcoming research -applied to the context of sandy beaches as a way to populate theoretical compounds with first-hand experiences:

• Data harmonization to bridge past, present and future information.

• Research Integrity as emerging need to back impactful research and communication Contributions from all disciplines around the topic of sandy beaches are welcome, from biogeochemistry to animal behaviour, to biogeography and numerical modelling. To facilitate inter-disciplinarity and maximise sharing of perspectives, there will not be
parallel sessions.

We are looking forward to welcome you in Lecce.